You do not want to give the impression of sloppiness. Now, it is ill-mannered to shout, so, type in lower case and remember your punctuation. Rule 8.Type in capitals only if you mean to SHOUT. This is a very useful field and can be helpful to the recipient if used judiciously, so make it informative. Rule 7.Use the Subject field to enter a clear concise indication of what the e-mail is about.
Not only that, common courtesy dictates that you should ask the author first if the e-mail sent for your eyes only can be forwarded to strangers or others for which it was not originally intended. Rule 6.Keep in mind that if you are forwarding a private e-mail that was sent to you, you must get the sender’s permission to forward it on to others (or to post it publicly).Į-mails are copyright protected by their authors. Remove any e-mail addresses in the body of the e-mail that have been forwarded by those who disregard the privacy of their friends and associates. This is a serious privacy issue! Do not perpetuate a breech of privacy started by other forwarders who included their contact’s addresses in the To: or Cc: field by continuing to forward those visible addresses to your contacts. By the same token it cannot bring you fame and fortune as they promise.Į-mail Etiquette Rule 5.If you must forward an e-mail to more than one person, put your e-mail address in the To: field and all the others you are sending to in the Bcc: field to protect their e-mail address from being published to those they do not know. Remember, e-mail is only e-mail it does not have any magical powers that can bring you bad luck or whatever else the chain letter threatens. If you cannot think of why the person you are forwarding to would like to receive the e-mail - then simply don’t forward it.Į-mail Etiquette Rule 4.It should go without saying that forwarding of e-mail chain letters regardless how noble the topic may seem, virus warnings or anything that says ‘forward to everyone you know’, simply should not be forwarded because in most cases it is plain old garbage. If you must forward, only forward the actual ‘guts’ or content of the e-mail that you are of the opinion is valuable.Į-mail Etiquette Rule 2.If you cannot take the time to write a personal comment at the top of your forwarded e-mail to the person you are sending to – then you shouldn’t forward it at all.Į-mail Etiquette Rule 3.Think carefully about if the e-mail you are forwarding will be of value (accurate information - check for hoaxes at ), will it be appreciated (is it something the recipient is interested in or needs), if it is humorous (do theyhave the same sense of humor as you do). People really don’t want to look amongst all the gobbly-gook to see what it is you thought was worth forwarding. These rules are for those who are being truly considerate and thoughtful :Į-mail Etiquette Rule 1.Don’t forward anything without editing out all the forwarding >, other e-mail addresses, headers, and commentary from all the other forwarders. Here are some rules to follow for forwarding E-mails. The most important and most used and abused is the e-mailing part of the net. E-mail etiquette is just a small part of Netiquette - no, that’s not a typo! Netiquette is Internet Etiquette for all aspects of the internet, including e-mailing.
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